Living Systems Lab Research Group

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The Living Systems Lab explores the inherent properties of biological living systems to develop new knowledge in the field of ecology via creative practices in art, design and architecture.

The Living Systems Lab Research Group is structured into two interconnected strands:

• the design Living Systems Lab focuses on developing bio-informed design strategies as a disruptive driver for sustainability;
• the art Living Systems Lab focuses on artistic research exploring the interrelationships within complex ecologies and networked systems.

The dLS Lab explores the intersection of biological sciences and design to develop new sustainable materials and forms of production for the future. By researching and referencing modes of fabrication found in nature, one can incorporate biological principles (cyclical, solar, local) into the design process. Within biodesign, research methodologies can be radically altered by the notion of working with dynamic living systems as opposed to inanimate matter and designers have begun to expand their roles from scripting the form-shaping of materials, to creating and growing new biological materialities. The lab explores alternative bio-informed design protocols, which navigate the realm of the hand-made, the man-made and the ‘grow-made’ as an inquiry into future making.

The aLS Lab explores the interrelationships between artistic research and living systems, developing novel interfaces and artworks that question one's relationships to nonhuman entities and examine the relationship between biological, technological and social systems. Within a broad field of bioart the lab supports practice-led artistic research working with living systems as material, model and metaphor. Questions of authorship, co-creation and control are investigated and hybrid methodologies - combining artistic, new media and biological approaches - are nurtured through a creative and critical lens.

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University of the Arts London
272 High Holborn
London
WC1V 7EY